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August 2019

The member of Murzuq municipality Mohammed Omar said a warplane for Khalifa Haftar's forces struck Saturday afternoon Murzuq in southern Libya twice.

Omar told the German news agency that between six and eight people had been killed in airstrikes on eastern part of the town - Anti-Desertification Project - near the meteorology building where many houses are located.

The Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Sayala said Friday that calls for an unconditional ceasefire would make the attackers of Tripoli, who wish to return Libya to dictatorship, and its defenders, who wish to build a civilian state, equal.

Speaking at Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TIKAD), Sayala said the offensive against Tripoli was made possible through foreign support, yet it failed to seize power by force as Presidential Council's government had foiled it.

The Turkish envoy to Libya Emrullah Işler said Khalifa Haftar is responsible for dragging Libya into crisis since May 2014 and then for aborting political solutions in 2016.

In a forum in Ankara on Wednesday under the slogan "Tripoli Battle in the Domestic and Regional Levels", Işler said Haftar's forces allied with militias and that despite some countries knowledge of the fact that those militias are not legitimate, they tried to present Haftar as a partner in the war on terrorism.

Fighting axes in southern Tripoli have been seeing an uneasy calm amid an exchange of artillery shelling between the forces under the Presidential Council's government command and those under Khalifa Haftar's command, especially in Ain Zara, Airport Road and Khalit Al-Furjan.